opioid crisis

The town of Groton is looking to allocate more than $100,000 in opioid settlement funding to a local nonprofit helping people in recovery. Community Speaks Out is a Groton-based organization that helps families and people who are struggling with addiction to find the resources they need to get into recovery. Tammy de la Cruz co-founded the organization in 2015 after…

Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers. The deal would still need to be approved by 43 states to take effect. It follows a similar announcement from pharmacy chains CVS Health and Walgreen Co. They each said they would pay about $5...

CVS Health and Walgreen Co. announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids, and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal.

San Diego County could soon have a new weapon in its arsenal to help fight its growing problem with opioid addiction.

Connecticut Monday is set to receive $11 million as part of a nationwide settlement with opioid manufacturers.

The State of Connecticut is set to receive $11 million that is aimed at fighting the opioid addiction crisis. It’s part of a larger $26 billion settlement that is expected to flow to every state in the country. This is the largest opioid-related settlement to date and it is aimed at reversing the crisis for families and in places devastated…

Connecticut is set to receive $11 million on Monday as part of an opioid settlement. The money is expected to help combat the opioid addiction crisis.

The Centers for Disease Control revealed Wednesday that the U.S. set a grim record in 2021 with 107,000 overdose deaths.

The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes.

President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress

State attorneys in Florida say pharmacy chain Walgreens ignored red flags that signaled the pharmacies were contributing to the opioid crisis. Walgreens stores in the Tampa area had abnormally high numbers of opioid prescriptions and pills distributed, prosecutors say. Walgreens attorneys say the company was misled by pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma about the potency of the drugs.

There often is a serious downside for people taking medications that have a long track record of helping treat opioid addiction: discrimination

With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions

U.S. government officials said synthetic opioids are akin to “a slow-motion weapon of mass destruction.”

Native American tribes have reached opioid settlements worth over a half-billion dollars with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three distributors

Combatting the opioid crisis is an ongoing fight, but now Waterbury is getting a boost in that battle.

Combatting the opioid crisis is an ongoing fight, but now Waterbury is getting a boost in that battle. The city is receiving $900,000 in federal grant funding to cut down opioid overdoses and deaths. It is important funding because across Connecticut, opioid deaths increased by 14 percent in 2020. Health officials and advocates say the “Warm Hand-Off” program that is…

A jury has held Teva Pharmaceuticals responsible for contributing to the opioid crisis

As the pandemic ravaged the country, deaths from drug overdoses surged by nearly 30%, surpassing 100,000 dead for the first time in American history.